Jack Teague

Actor and Screenwriter

South Pascagoula, Mississippi

About Jack

Born into a career US Air Force family in Georgia, Jack's family traveled for his father's duty stations to Germany and New York State before returning to the family home in Alabama where he graduated High School and then attended Auburn University. There he first encountered filmmaking as background in "Norma Rae" while completing the Pre-veterinary Medicine curriculum leading to a B.A. in Liberal Arts. After graduation, he began screenwriting, non-fiction and fiction writing while establishing a career in Environmental Science for Florida's Public Health Agency, Upon leaving Public Health, he obtained a US Coast Guard Captain's License and founded a saltwater charter fishing business in the Key West/Lower Keys area, becoming an authority on saltwater fly fishing. In recent years, he relocated to Alabama's Gulf Coast where he continued charter fishing before finding opportunities to work in film production. He is now devoted to a fulltime career in acting and screenwriting/writing.

Gender:
Male

Height:
6' 3"

Weight:
215

Body type:
Athletic

Hair:
Medium

Hair color:
Brown

Eyes:
Brown

Ethnicity:
Caucasian

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Christmas Grouper
Crime &diam; Drama
Christmas Grouper is a story driven crime drama about the effects on the people of a small, southern U.S.Gulf Coast, fishing village when marijuana smuggling emerges to fill the economic gaps after a mill, the major employer in the area, shuts its operation.

Dark Friend
Drama &diam; Independent
What exactly is it we fear when the reaper comes calling?

Time Flyz
Drama &diam; Family &diam; Independent
Short Feature -
An interlude in the tale of two sons coping with onset of Alzheimer's Disease in their father set against the famly's passion for fly fishing in Montana's Yellowstone River.
Adapted from short fiction of the same title I wrote that was published in the Yale Anglers Journal in 2008. Full screenplay available upon request.

Tetch
Family &diam; Independent &diam; War
Short Feature - A young man returns to the small rural southern community of his birth to attend the funeral of a favorite uncle who raised him as a child after his parents were killed in an automobile accident and has died unexpectedly. The solemn mourning at the home of the deceased is interrupted by the raucous arrival of a drunken relative who wrecks his car in the front yard. After the dust settles, literally and figuratively, the young man learns of the origins of the inebriated driver's demons from the elder brother of the deceased.

A Part of Them Forever: Hemingway's Last Journey
Biography &diam; Documentary &diam; Historical
Documentary - Ernest Hemingway spent the last week of his life journeying from Minneapolis, MN, where he was being treated in the Mayo Clinic, to his home in Ketchum, ID where he died at his own hand in July 1961. This proposed documentary follows the journey the Hemingway party made, daily leg by daily leg, during the same days, sharing with the audience some of the same vistas they saw, contrasting historical against modern, in one of the most timeless regions of America.

Credits

Get Out(2017)Film
(Horror)
ActorA young African American man visits his Caucasian girlfriend's cursed family estate.

Paranormalice(2016)Film
(Drama, Horror and Thriller)
ActorA writer travels to a small southern town in search of a ghostly legend and finds the cursed residents waiting for his arrival as the centuries-old secret of Paranormalice rises from the blood and ashes of Mosswood.

Jack Reacher: Never Go Back(2016)Film
(Action, Adventure, Crime, Mystery and 1 More)
ActorJack Reacher must uncover the truth behind a major government conspiracy in order to clear his name. On the run as a fugitive from the law, Reacher uncovers a potential secret from his past that could change his life forever.

Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk(2016)Film
(Drama and War)
ActorTwo-time Academy Award® winner Ang Lee brings his extraordinary vision to Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, based on the widely-acclaimed, bestselling novel. The film is told from the point of view of 19-year-old private Billy Lynn (newcomer Joe Alwyn) who, along with his fellow soldiers in Bravo Squad, becomes a hero after a harrowing Iraq battle and is brought home temporarily for a victory tour. Through flashbacks, culminating at the spectacular halftime show of the Thanksgiving Day football game, the film reveals what really happened to the squad - contrasting the realities of the war with America's perceptions. The film also stars Kristen Stewart, Chris Tucker, Garrett Hedlund, with Vin Diesel, and Steve Martin. Lee used new technology, shooting at an ultra-high frame rate for the first time in film history, to create an immersive digital experience helping him dramatize war in a way never seen before. Lee directed and produced the film, from a screenplay by Jean-Christophe ... Written by Sony Pictures Entertainment

Billionaire Boys Club(2016)Film
(Biography and Drama)
ActorA group of wealthy boys in Los Angeles during the early 1980s establish a 'get-rich-quick' scam that turns deadly.

Bad Moms(2016)Film
(Comedy)
ActorAmy has a seemingly perfect life - a great marriage, over-achieving kids, beautiful home and a career. However she's over-worked, over-committed and exhausted to the point that she's about to snap. Fed up, she joins forces with two other over-stressed moms on a quest to liberate themselves from conventional responsibilities - going on a wild, un-mom-like binge of long overdue freedom, fun and self-indulgence - putting them on a collision course with PTA Queen Bee Gwendolyn and her clique of devoted perfect moms. Written by STX Entertainment.com

Before I Wake(2016)Film
(Drama, Fantasy, Horror and Thriller)
ActorIn this intense and heart pounding supernatural thriller, Jessie (Kate Bosworth) and Mark (Thomas Jane) decide to take in a sweet and loving 8-year-old boy, Cody. Unbeknownst to them, Cody is terrified of falling asleep. At first, they assume his previous unstable homes caused his aversion to sleep, but soon discover why: Cody's dreams manifest in reality as he sleeps. In one moment they experience the incredible wonder of Cody's imagination, and in the next, the horrific nature of his night terrors. To save their new family, Jessie and Mark embark on a dangerous hunt to uncover the truth behind Cody's nightmares. Written by Relativity